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Posted on 05/06/2013 9:43:29 AM PDT by Bigtigermike
The deputy of slain U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens has told congressional investigators that a team of Special Forces prepared to fly from Tripoli to Benghazi during the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks was forbidden from doing so by U.S. Special Operations Command South Africa.
The account from Gregory Hicks is in stark contrast to assertions from the Obama administration, which insisted that nobody was ever told to stand down and that all available resources were utilized. Hicks gave private testimony to congressional investigators last month in advance of his upcoming appearance at a congressional hearing Wednesday.
According to excerpts released Monday, Hicks told investigators that SOCAFRICA commander Lt. Col. Gibson and his team were on their way to board a C-130 from Tripoli for Benghazi prior to an attack on a second U.S. compound "when [Col. Gibson] got a phone call from SOCAFRICA which said, 'you can't go now, you don't have the authority to go now.' And so they missed the flight ... They were told not to board the flight, so they missed it."
(Excerpt) Read more at m.cbsnews.com ...
Should be "US Special Operations Command, Africa" (US SOCAFRICA), not South Africa
Approx., two and a half days to go to the big top comes to town.
Thanks for the post.
We need to do more than just impeach 0bama. We need to take down the entire progressive regime.
There, I finally said it.
Anybody who thinks Hillary did this on her own is falling for the bait. Someday, some person is going to stop protecting Obama and letting themselves be thrown under the bus, and then suddenly even the press is going to have to admit that the man is plain evil and hates the US.
He’s not smart and he probably doesn’t even originate his own evil ideas. But he’s ruthless and ideological, yet he survives on trying to portray himself as innocent and well-meaning. He does this by creating “plausible deniability” by simply never being seen as involved in anything; that way he can claim it was all just a mistake by bungling subordinates.
Hillary is an evil witch who hates the US, but she was about the least powerful SOS we ever had (remember, Obama was always leaving her home or sending her off to the middle of nowhere whenever he had to meet with an important, usually Muslim, personage). She wouldn’t have done anything without knowing that Obama had authorized it.
One more of a hundred WH lies about Benghazi.
I have said from the get-go that the Ambassador was assassinated on orders from 0bama. As someone else pointed out, this should have been a shining heroic moment just before the election, instead we have a very ugly result. Nothing they have said or done on Benghazi makes any sense at all.
Now they point to al-queda etc., but I think it is much more grim than that. If it were al-queda where are the drone strikes in retaliation? We've heard nothing...nothing at all about any type of recourse.
What is so heinous that our government had to kill our own people for? That my FRiend is a darn good question.
“What are Obama and Clinton covering up that is so heinous that they were willing to leave the whole Benghazi staff - forty or so people - to die?”
How about a prison, which would have made staying at Gitmo look like a walk in the park. A prison filled with Islamo prisoners being questioned by Arabs, without the safety of waterboards and zippo constitutional rights.
Then, how about an weapons/arms exchange that would make Iran/Contra look like little boys playing cowboys and Indians.
Then, how about those arms including new stingers ending up in Syria/Egypt/?????
This administration is guilty of much worse than what they try to blame on the Bush Admin.
Something they’re not talking about: The guys who finally did charter a jet and started flying 2 Bengazi were at first in full military garb. That fact was communicated to higher-ups during the flight and for reasons that remain unclear that garb agitated higher-ups so much that they had to LAND AND CHANGE CLOTHES.
And this change took 90 minutes WHILE the bullets were flying.
NINETY MINUTES.
Obviously there was a lot of legalism still going on, then.
Rush’s explanation:
“The biggies didn’t really WANT them to die. Rather, they consider themselves enlightened, loved, and infallible, and the notion that the Bengazi locals were NOT star-struck with the regime in the way the Beltway Crowd is simply did not occur to them —they thought the attack was just rock throwing...”
My explanation:
“There was NO Embassy or Consulate in Bengazi. There was a large facility for Libya->Turkey->Syria arms transfer, which formed the cornerstone of Obama plans for the toppling of Syria. The program was larger and more sensitive than is commonly understood, and an involved rescue might not only have failed per Desert One but surely would have brought sharper media attention on a covert program on the eve of an election. 30 more deaths at “The Farm” was an eventuality preferable to the unmasking of this sensitive operation —the higher-ups were scared and simply pulled the plug.”
It’s way past time for some stars, bars, and super grade GS’s to earn their pay, suck it up, and spit out how it was that they all had an overwhelming desire to sit on their hands. Even Ham, who as I recall, claimed he was about to retire anyway. We all know it’s exactly possible to trace these stand down orders to the ultimate source——and it MUST be done-——then prosecuted because it is negligence of the highest order.
Agree. Unfortunately the coverup was successful and the traitorous barack osama won a second term.
The odds of him being impeached over this (or anything else) are slim to none.
President “Hillary!” will be the next national nightmare (since we’ve now elected a black president, it is now time to elect a woman or hispanic /s). The hope is that her involvement with Benghazi will damage her politically so that she will be forced to give up her presidential aspirations.
Best dang post I have read in a while. They all should be impeached and disgraced, but the Media will run the block and Amerika is too addicted to watching the Red Sox’s, The Bears, and the Jaz. We are living in Bread and Circus’s and MillHouse Obama probably will get off scott free...
I vote for your explanation.
Syria is next on the “arab spring” hit list.
Where is Jack Ryan? If there were only a movie...
The situations are far too similar....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7tGEEWQIhQ
Some new ideas ther,...the prison....Hmmm.
Wanted to say in the debates with Romney,....we have put no boots on the ground.
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